Suess v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
31 F. 855 · 1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1928
4 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Choctaw Nation v. United States · Davis v. American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Moses v. Mayor of Mobile · Gault v. Wallis · Schmidt v. Cobb
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Surely chancery will not grant an injunction in a criminal matter under examination in this court; and that, if they did, this court would break it, and protect any that would proceed in contempt of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No power exists in any court of equity to interfere by injunction with the prosecution and punishment of crimes and offenses in the courts of common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.